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(No Model.)

PHARAOHS SERPBNT. No. 418,814. Patented Jan 7, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES NELSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PHARAOHS SERPENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,814, dated January'7, 1890.

Application filed April 11, 1889. Serial No. 306,891. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES NELSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Pharaohs Serpents, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention consists in providing aPharaohs serpent with an explosiveportion or fulminate, as set forth in the following specificationandclaims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which shows asideelevation of a Pharaohs-serpent egg with an ex plosive portion.

In this drawing the letter A indicates the Pharaohs-serpent egg, and Bis an explosive or detonating portion of suitable materialsuch asfulminate of mercu ry-connected with the egg, so that the flame of theegg will reach the section B. The egg or capsule A, being ignited, willproduce a Pharaohs serpent, and when the flame reaches the explosiveportion B an explosion will occur. A startling effect or surprise canthus be secured.

A convenient way of connecting the explosive section and the capsule isby interposing an adhesive substancesuch as a thin layer of gluebetweenthe contact-surfaces of the egg and section. In order that the flame caneasily play about the lower edge of the egg A and readily reach andsurround the section B, I have found itof advantage to secure thesection B upon a raised or embossed portion 0 of a support D -such as astrip of paper or pasteboard-and allow the egg A to project at its loweredge beyond the section B. The section B can be secured to the support Dby a suitable adhesive, such as glue.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a Pharaohs serpent comprising theegg A, to slowly burn, as usual, and the explosive base-section B,joined to the egg and supporting the latter in a stationary positionuntil consumed, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. A Pharaohs serpent comprising the egg A, to slowly burn, as usual,and the explosive base-section B, joined to the egg and supporting thelatter in a stationary position until oonsumed, said egg projecting atits lower edge beyond the explosive base-section, substantially as andfor the purposes described.

3. A'Pharaohs serpent comprising the support D, havinga raised portion0, an explosive section Ben the raised portion, and the slowlyburningegg A, surmounting and supported by the explosive section, substantiallyas and for the purposes described. 7

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

- CHARLES NELSON. IVitnesses: I

WILLIAM C. HAUFF, KATIE M. KASTENHUBER.

